I don't know who coined the phrase "Time heals all wounds." I'm not sure what the context was, whether the orator was referring to a stubbed toe, a broken marriage, a lost soul ... But I'm relatively sure that what he WASN'T referring to was healing from the loss of a precious, intelligent 23-year-old young man who was murdered in the prime of his life.

In my mind's eye, I can still see him handing out programs to guests at our wedding in his itty-bitty tuxedo. I can still see us pillow-fighting on my bed at their house when I was in college and he was 6, the age Nicholas is now.

I can still see the wind ruffling his hair as I drove him and his brother Harry through the streets of Birmingham, on the way to the zoo or the pottery painting place or the movie theatre.

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isn't it so hard to believe people when they say time heals? i dont think that person lost anything more important than their keys...losing someone young is so painful. im sorry that you've had to experience that..